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Radar trends to watch: August 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Good practices for authentication, backups, and software updates are the best defense against ransomware and many other attacks. This is of immense importance to research in biology and medicine. Researchers have been able to synthesize speech using the brainwaves of a patient who has been paralyzed and unable to talk.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework Gets Major Update, as Advisories on APT29 and ALPHV Blackcat Get Rolled Out

Tenable

Well, researchers from OpenAI and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) tackled this question and just published a study outlining specific assessment criteria. All along, a core question has been: How do you test and evaluate an LLM’s cybersecurity capabilities and risks?

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

Kentik visualization of Russian BGP hijack of Twitter in February 2022 ( source ) In 2008, researchers outlined how BGP could be manipulated to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack over the internet. AS path errors Not all routing incidents involve the perpetrator specifying its own ASN as the origin of the erroneous route.

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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2022

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Facebook’s large language model for scientific research, Galactica , only survived online for three days. It produced scientific papers that sounded reasonable, but the content was often factually incorrect, including “fake research” attributed to real scientists. Google has put a Switch Transformers model on HuggingFace.

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Radar Trends to Watch: August 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Researchers have used reinforcement learning to build a robotic dog that learns to walk on its own in the real world (i.e., AWS is offering some customers a free multi factor authentication (MFA) security key. Quantum networking is becoming real: researchers have created entangled qubits via a 33-mile fiber optic connection.

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Fighting Ransomware: Using Ivanti’s Platform to Build a Resilient Zero Trust Security Defense – Part 2

Ivanti

The other good news is these suspicious or untrusted configuration profiles, malware, and other malicious exploits including the Pegasus spyware will be detected by Ivanti Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) and trigger compliance actions like block access to corporate resources or quarantine actions on the device. CalDAV calendar service settings.

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Attack Vectors: How They Can Harm Your Company

Kaseya

According to research conducted by NordPass, Fortune 500 companies use passwords that can be hacked in less than a second. A trusted domain is one that authenticates the user while the others are called trusting domains. The infection can take the form of a virus, trojan horse, worm, spyware, adware, rootkit or the infamous ransomware.

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